FUEL FROM GARBAGE.
An American city has just solved t!>e problem of garbage disposal in a way that is not only sanitary, but profitable. It turns it into a high-grade fuel. Forty of the town*s leading citizens formed a company and made a contract to remove all the city's refuse and garbage. This if> takeo to a factory, where all non- inflammable objects, such as bottles, iron, tin cains, etc. are removed. What is left is ground, mixed with a certain proportion of ground coal slack, steam , and creosote, and reduced to a pulp. This is moulded into bricks " weighing ,tivo pounds, and set aside to dry., These bricks sell at about 27s a 1000 (one ton) Tested against oak wood for their heatproducing qualities, they are found to give 12,000 heat units against SOGQ in oak. .
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18358, 4 June 1917, Page 2
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137FUEL FROM GARBAGE. Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18358, 4 June 1917, Page 2
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